Simon Cameron

You should never be so high and mighty you can’t listen to somebody else and learn something from them. Leadership is as much about using the ear as using the mouth.

In prison, I fell in love with my country. I had loved her before then, but like most young people, my affection was little more than a simple appreciation for the comforts and privileges most Americans enjoyed and took for granted. It wasn’t until I had lost America for a time that I realized how much I loved her.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

It didn’t take very many forces to destroy huge numbers of natives, not so much because the technology was better, but because the Europeans fought differently. If we were to be honest about the history, we would describe European colonialism simply as a barbarian invasion.

The Affordable Care Act isn’t Barack’s legacy, it’s the country’s legacy.

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

Kim Jong-un speaks and his people sit up at attention. I want my people to do the same.

I’m not sorry. I will never be sorry. I would do everything I did again if I had to. Everything.

Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.

The Pope! How many divisions has he got?

The international monetary fund recently [2014] did a study in which it concluded that virtually the entire profit of the big banks comes from the government insurance policy.

It was a respectful ceremony and I stood in respect throughout it.

You can’t be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who’s for you and who’s against you.

The unjustified swelling of the budgetary deficit and the accumulation of public debts are just as destructive as adventurous stock-jobbing.

And then, Sir, there is this consideration, that if the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.